The records about dragons "bogus" in history

The records about dragons "bogus" in history

Dragon's legendary mascot is considered product of human imagination.However there are so many stories, mystical lore has recorded the arrival of huge creatures, flying, know this fire spit.

Myths appear in the East and the West, the dragon is known as a legendary creature with incredible strength. Most of us agree that this animal is not real magic, but human history has repeatedly noted the appearance of them.

Oldest epic Gilgamesh Earth , written in 2000 BC in Mesopotamia depictingcreatures Humbaba special shapes. It has a lion's mane, solid surface, horns throughout the body, legs vulture's claws, on the head with horns of cows, can spray fire and water.

Even in the Bible also describes the magical creatures and Daniel are recorded as killed " dragon " first. After seeing the Babylonians worshiped a giant reptile with wings, said fire and flying, Daniel proved, great animal, this monstrous shape perturb, killing human life alone .

Despite the proven health, but many people do not believe. So that Daniel had planned to kill it by giving it to eat more fat, hair, inflammable objects and make the animal burst.

The legend is well known in Europe as the St. George - who accidentally in a strange town and threatened by huge dragons, scary. Here, he has rescued a young woman, protecting themselves with the cross and finally killed the beast.

The inhabitants of the town of love courage and faith of St. George, immediately followed unanimously Christian. A similar story about St. Columba, who in 565 had destroyed a gigantic monster underwater. 2 Interestingly both are true knight in history.

St. George and the Dragon - Paolo Uccello paintings by the artist, 1470

In medieval times, the boat of the Vikings always put a piece of wood carved dragon head forward. They believe, will help disguise before the dragon of the sea. At that time, most people atheists Viking or Norse religion, uphold the courage, science and must have some reason they believe in the existence of the sea dragon.

Imagination or real animals?

No document exists only in the religious characterized, in the scientific literature and history also recorded many times people encounter dragons. In the history books of the empire of Macedonia has recorded the story of Alexander the Great invaded India when he told the soldiers a strange story. That he saw agiant lizard lives in the cave, it is extremely aggressive and dangerous.

In the book tells of journeys in his Chinese, Marco Polo has recounts a myth.During one adventure in the province of Karajan, he caught a giant snake in front 2 short legs, each leg has three claws.

It has a large smile, sharp teeth enough to swallow a man, extremely aggressive temperament ... With this look, it's enough to make any animal species should also shy around them. Book also tells of many youth in the area of ​​focus groups to hunt this species, because they said that their blood which are very complementary.

Dragon drawings of scientists Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi who is considered the father of modern natural science also record information about the species he is the dragon. As a scientist, he has traveled extensively, collecting data on thousands of species of animals and plants and create a natural history museum first.

During fieldwork in the city suburbs of Bologna dated 05.13.1572, Aldrovandi had seen a creature more than 1m long, hissing like a snake. As described, this creature had surrendered, 2 smaller front legs, torso distended with horny scales, with one pair of wings on the back.

Animals exotic farmer was killed and dismembered before beating witnessed by Aldrovandi. Immediately, he drew the shape of this creature, he said, so maybe this is a little dragon age should body has not fully developed.

Photos depicting dragons Europe

In the library of King Henry VIII are also many picture books about dragons. In particular, many books recorded that: "This special Animals larger than all the other snake or all living organisms on Earth. This creature is often in the cave, it has crested, a narrow mouth and usually made ​​by heat. Its strength is not in the teeth but in their distinctive tails.

Some dragons bringing stand-in person, but they rarely use it. All the dragons were born in Ethiopia and India - where the temperature is warm all year round.From here, we will be traveling all over the world thanks to its wings ". Many contemporaries also said that Henry has nurtured one dragon basement of his mansion.

Dragon appeared many cultures everywhere

Famous historians of the seventeenth century - Christopher Schorerum rewrote an incredible experience in his autobiography as follows: "On a warm night in 1619, I saw a bright blocks appear in the sky. At first I thought it was a meteor, but a closer look, it is a huge animal with a long neck and tail, the head like a reptile and large jaw intense. When it flies, it's like being sparks scattered everywhere ... ".

Date 26/04/1890, many newspapers reported simultaneously in Arizona, the cowboy has seen a dragon appeared in the sky. The witness described, its wingspan is tens of meters, large body to 27m, with top seed lizard with a long beak scary. This description perfectly matches the dinosaur Quetzalcoatlus, a fossil found in Texas a few years later.

Dr. Donald Stewart - biology researchers working at Lake Morar in Scotland describes a dragon-like creature with humps on their backs, about 6m long. In May 8/1969, in times out fishing at Lake Morar, two men Duncan McDonnell and Bill Simpson found a monster nearly 8m when it crashed into their motorboat. It has a thick skin, dark brown with three black hump on his back, the snake-like head, and then it disappears quickly because of a hit with the paddle and the other shootings.

With the popularization of culture and noted the clear on history, we can still hope that the giant reptiles lived in caves, sea or valleys, forests that man arrived at called "dragon" is real. They are really a great mystery and awaits a date for us to discover.

The real dragons and dragon fossils

In fact, species, the Komodo dragon in Indonesia is said to be one of the most obvious proof of the existence of this mysterious creature. There are many things that it is not irrational as in the human imagination.

Medieval, the Vikings used to believe in the existence of the species, sea dragons attack boats capable of fishing. In fact, sea dragons (sea dragon) is real.It is one of the rarest fishes underwater identical shape in the legendary dragon.They only appear in the west and south coasts of Australia.